So, anybody else see this yet?
Had the day off work and I really wanted to see this. All my friends were working, busy, or didn't want to go, but dammit, I really wanted to see this. I have never gone to a movie by myself before, just always seems like the kind of thing you don't do, because you just don't want to be that guy that goes to the movies by himself. Giving into my desire to see the movie over my desire not to seem like a pathetic loser, I went by myself, only to discover a theater full of mid-twenty to forty year old white guys all sitting by themselves. It was kind of depressing. At least I enjoyed the movie, and the knowledge that I have a wife who will be home from work in about an hour makes me feel less loserly :)
I thought it was an excellent adaption of the graphic novel. Not perfect, but damn near it.
Only... I just don't feel the new ending quite packed the punch of the original. Maybe that is because I am used to the original ending, and that I have already read the spoilers for the new ending. The ending just didn't work that well for me.
A few other minor things were:
Rorschach's moving mask, it moved around so much that it was actually kind of distracting and took some focus off of conversation for the first bit of the film. Got used to it after a few scenes though.
Richard Nixon's nose. He actually looked eerily like Nixon from the distance shots, but in the close up shots, he felt like a characature of Nixon. The nose just seemed way over done (okay, maybe slightly over done), and for some reason it really bugged me throughout the film.
Moloch's ears. One cool things about The Watchmen as a graphic novel, was that it took the silly premise of vigilantes in gay costumes, and made it real and gritty. Yes, Moloch in the graphic novel had pointy ears, but in the graphic novel, it was a realistic degree of pointiness. In the film, they just look awful and over done. He is suppose to be a criminal, not some sort of evil woodelf, or imp.
The funniest complaint I have heard about this movie so far is that the blood drip on the Comedian Smiley button didn't look exactly the same as it did in the book. If you are one of these types of fans, don't even bother seeing the movie, you'll hate it.